Travel Blogs from Aomori

... from Hirosaki. The garden is separated into 2 parts by a 13m cliff. There is a western house which is now a tea house, a Japanese house and an Archeology Museum. We have morning tea in the tea house. Glenn has Apple Pie and coffee and I had a pot of apple tea and although we don't have to sit on the floor in true Japanese style, we do have to remove our shoes to go inside. The gardens are beautiful. The philosophy of making a garden in a Japan is to ...

... full and those cars that are for travellers without reservation packed

From Aomori Shinkansen to Aomori you change to a very local train - quite a change. After we found the hotel we went across the street into a Japanese restaurant. Everything in Japanese, no English menu or waiter who can speak English. Now we have arrived to ...

My final stop on the Saturday adventure trip was at the Really Big Buddha just outside Aomori, Japan. This too is on the Misawa Air Base "must see" listing and while I've been past it a number of times (heading to the snow of the Hakkoda mountains or on various ITT trips), this was my first stop at ...